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About the Modern Girl, Again:

Spectacle, Politics, Subjectivity

About the Modern Girl

‘…highly commodified cultural construct crafter by male jouralists.’

‘a phantom projected onto the social landscape by male critics anxious about socio-cultural change.’ (Miriam Silverberg)

‘mainly media sensation and partially lived reality.’ (Dina Lowy)

‘a screen on to which all sorts of fantasies and ideas about sexuality could be projected.’ (Wada Hirofumi)

Japan’s first mannequin girl: Hanako at the national exhibition of industry

commemorating the enthronement of

the Showa emperor in 1928.

(from Kon Wajirō, A New Guide to

Greater Tokyo (Shinpan dai Tokyo annai,1929))

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‘How to Become a Mannequin, Asahi Graph 4 March 1931 ‘Mannequins’, Asahi Graph, 25 Sep 1929

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‘The Childhood of the Dolls’ , Yomiuri 1 July 1929 ‘What a Contradiction!’, Yomiuri, 2 July 1929

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‘The New Mannequins’ , Yomiuri 6 July 1929

‘The Mannequins, Their Domain Devastated by the Human Models, Become Gradually More Abstract’, Yomiuri 27 March 1932

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‘A Love Letter in the Belly’, Asahi 23 Jan 1936

The fears and perceptual anxieties emanating from ever more powerful

machines are recast and reconstructed in terms of the male fear of female sexuality reflecting, in the Freudian account, the male’s castration anxiety...Woman, nature, machine had become a mesh of significations which all

had one thing in common: otherness; by their very existence they raised fears and threatened male authority and control.

Andreas Huyssen, ‘The Vamp and the Machine: Technology and Sexuality in Fritz Lang’s

Metropolis’, New German Critique 24/25 (1981), 226.

Komai Reiko (real name Asanuma Kiyoko)

Maruyama Miyoko in her modelling days Maruyama Miyoko, Mannequin Girl: The History of Showa as Told by a Poet’s Wife (Tokyo: Jijitsūshinsha, 1984)

Hara Sen (1905–1989): actress, married to Communist poet Nakano Shigeharu (1930–1979)